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Canadian Publications Mail Product Sales Agreement Nº 40020421 Volume 18 Number 12 Your Coastal Community Newspaper June 29, 2006 Tide tables 2 P3s 2 Saturna notes 3 Letters 4 Letterpress 6 Book-lets 7 Bulletin Board 11 Landowners angry over mining claim staking, say Greens On a three-week road tour of BC, Green Party leader Adriane Carr has uncovered province-wide anger with the BC Liberals for encouraging claim staking on private lands, stripping away people’s property rights. Private properties are being staked for uranium in the Rock Creek area, gravel mines around Vernon and coal bed methane close to Smithers and in the Cariboo. ‘I left my home on the Sunshine Coast where people are upset about their properties being staked for an aggregate Photo: John Wiznuk mine,’ said Carr. ‘Now, I’m finding Money Lake, Saturna Island, the reservoir for the Lyall Harbour/Boot Cove water system. Even though June was a wet month the people across the province are angry lake level is low, a month ahead of usual drawdown. about this same issue.’ Changes to mining regulations were quietly passed by the BC Liberal government without due debate in the Salmon mapping Ferry fares keep adding up Miscellaneous Statutes Amendment Act A pioneering study of the out-migration of juvenile Patrick Brown (Bill 54). Concerned landowners in salmon through Heiltsuk traditional territory on BC’s On June 22, BC Ferries received approval from the contribution to costs from the Province. Vernon, who met with Carr, call Bill 54 central coast is underway this May and June. The the Ferry Commissioner to implement its (see box, page 3). the ‘land theft act.’ Prior to this bill, Raincoast Conservation Foundation is leading this biggest fuel surcharge yet: 3.2% for the main The Commissioner has provided mining operations could not interfere project which will map migration routes and habitat routes, and 9.6% for the smaller routes. The projections of ferry fares up to the end of the with buildings on staked land. use of juvenile salmon and will enable coastal result: main route ferry fares are now 18% first ‘performance term’ in March 2008. Using ‘Bill 54 removed this last vestige of communities to make more informed decisions about more than when the ferries were ‘privatized’ in the same assumption, that the provincial protection for landowners. Now development in near-shore marine habitats. March 2003; fares on the smaller routes are contribution will not increase, he sees main property owners are left with only the ‘Given that industrial development is an now 36% more. route fares being 25% higher than the base year option to negotiate compensation if their imminent threat to wild salmon in this region, we The new increases are justified by 2003 rates, and smaller route fares being buildings are affected by mining need to find out what young salmon are doing in continuing increases in the price of fuel. nearly 50% higher. This, of course, assumes these near-shore habitats and what cues they are exploration or development. This Information provided by Ferry Commissioner that fuel oil prices do not further rise. They are using to move through this labyrinth of islands and removes people’s fundamental property Martin Crilly blames a new fuel supply contract currently around $100 Canadian per barrel channels,’ said Nicola Temple, Raincoast’s wild which changed the basis of pricing from rights,’ said Carr. (with West Texas Intermediate crude oil at $70 salmon program coordinator. Edmonton to Vancouver, an increase of 20% in US per barrel). ‘I’m shocked this could happen in Crews made up of biologists from Raincoast, staff the per-litre cost. Gulf Islanders who must use the smaller Canada,’ a retired rancher and of the Heiltsuk Fisheries Program, local community The fuel surcharges are expressed as a routes were set up for higher fare increases by entrepreneur, Sandy Boyd, told Carr at members and volunteers will sample fish from fifteen percentage of regular fares, which are the contract that the government wrote for her meeting in Vernon. Carr explained, inlets and channels, check them for health and themselves subject to regular increases under itself under the Coastal Ferry Act. The contract ‘People can’t understand how Canada parasite (sea lice) loads, and later conduct in-depth the contract put in place by the government fixed the government’s contribution to each of can send troops overseas to secure civil laboratory analyses and apply Geographic under the Coastal Ferries Act. Without the fuel the smaller routes for five years, and permitted liberties while the BC government is Information System (GIS) techniques to produce surcharges, fares on main routes would be a 4.4% annual increase in fares. Even without taking away their rights.’ maps of migration routes and habitat use. 109% of March 2003 levels, while on the the fuel surcharges, fares were destined to rise ‘People are justifiably angry,’ said Sea lice infection of juvenile salmon is a critical smaller routes they would be 114% of March 24% in the five year period to March 2008. Carr. ‘A Vernon teacher, Kurt issue in areas such as the Broughton Archipelago with 2003 levels, with another increase coming in In writing the contract, the government Yakelashek, explained that his property high densities of open-net cage salmon farms. November 2006. effectively insulated itself from any unexpected is his biggest lifetime investment. If a Collecting baseline data on parasite loads in fish farm Smaller Routes Pay More, cost increases. Neither the government nor BC gravel mine goes ahead as staked, it will free areas of the Great Bear Rainforest is a unique and More Ferry Services Inc., the government-owned ruin his privacy, wreck his land and private corporation that now operates the opportunity for comparison with more impacted The fuel surcharges are consistently higher for ferries, could have anticipated the run-up in oil devalue his property. After saving to buy areas. the smaller routes. On the main routes, says the prices that has occurred over the past three his land, his hope for a happy rural life is Chris Williamson, the project’s lead biologist, Commissioner, fares cover 100% of the costs, years. The government has, however, shown ruined,’ said Carr. further explained that, ‘The threat of northward fish there is no provincial government subsidy absolutely no interest in increasing its ‘People across the province are farm expansion makes it even more important to involved, and therefore fares go up at the same contribution to mitigate the almost 50% dismayed at the government’s move to understand the habitat requirements of salmon at all rate as costs go up. On the smaller routes, increase in fares that will have occurred by promote mining rights over people’s stages of their life cycle. This study combines habitat however, he says fares cover, on average, one- March 2008. property rights. It’s time to amend the use with sea lice monitoring, and it is building third of the costs, and therefore percentage fare Mining Act to prohibit claim staking on increases must be three times percentage cost SALMON MAPPING, please turn to page 2 FERRY FARES, please turn to page 3 private property in BC,’ concluded Carr. increases, since there has been no increase in Page 2, ISLAND TIDES, June 29, 2006 Public interest compromised by public-private partnerships ~ Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives AT FULFORD HARBOUR r e c e n t closed-door conference between industry stands up to scrutiny is that they generate profit for industry. JUNE/JULY proponents and BC government officials promoting That’s not a good enough reason to pay more for something than ‘public-private partnership’ (P3), has people nervous. it's worth.’ Day Time Ht./ft. Ht./m. Day Time Ht./ft. Ht./m. A And a new study raises major concerns about higher costs and The study looks in detail at three BC case studies: the 0040 9.5 2.9 0645 3.6 1.1 lack of accountability in P3 infrastructure projects. Abbotsford Hospital, the Canada Line (RAV), and the aborted 27 0334 9.8 3.0 05 2306 10.2 3.1 Value for Money? Cautionary Lessons About P3s from District of Maple Ridge Core Project. ‘In all three cases, the value TU 1140 1.0 0.3 WE MA 2017 11.2 3.4 ME British Columbia was published by the Canadian Centre for for money reports used to justify the P3 option were not 0135 9.2 2.8 0719 3.0 0.9 Policy Alternatives. It examines how P3s have been used for produced by an independent third party, nor were they released 28 0416 9.5 2.9 06 1636 9.2 2.8 public infrastructure projects such as roads, transit and hospitals to the public before the contracts were final,’ says Murray. 1813 WE 1218 1.3 0.4 TH 9.2 2.8 in BC and internationally. It finds that: ‘Instead, the value for money reports were produced at the ME 2048 11.2 3.4 JE 2327 10.2 3.1 • P3s are being aggressively pursued in BC in spite of a lack of wrong time, by the wrong people, and with limited 8.9 0755 0.6 0232 2.7 2.0 evidence that they are a superior option. transparency.’ 29 0458 8.9 2.7 07 1708 9.8 3.0 TH 1254 2.0 0.6 FR 1948 9.8 3.0 • P3s are less cost-effective, timely and transparent than Murray says that ‘While P3s may be appropriate under some JE 2115 10.8 3.3 VE 2354 10.2 3.1 traditional government procurement. limited circumstances, the provincial government should 0328 8.2 2.5 0833 1.3 0.4 Partnerships BC, whose mandate is both to promote P3s and abandon its commitment to this model and take a more 8.2 1742 3.2 30 0546 2.5 08 10.5 evaluate whether they are appropriate for use on specific objective approach.’ The study recommends that: FR 1328 2.6 0.8 SA 2107 10.2 3.1 VE 2131 10.8 3.3 SA projects, cannot adequately protect the public interest. • All major public infrastructure projects should undergo a 0419 7.5 2.3 0033 10.5 3.2 Decision-making about infrastructure projects is being cost-benefit analysis that assesses the value of undertaking a 01 0652 7.5 2.3 09 0914 0.7 0.2 guided by ‘value for money’ assessments produced by project in the first place. SA 1400 3.6 1.1 SU 1816 10.8 3.3 SA 2155 10.5 3.2 DI 2206 10.2 3.1 Partnerships BC that are so subjective, so complicated, and so • If the government wishes to consider pursuing a P3, the consistently withheld from public scrutiny that they are not of value for money process used to assess this option should be 0502 6.6 2.0 0121 10.5 3.2 02 0831 6.9 2.1 10 0957 0.3 0.1 legitimate use. carried out by the Auditor General’s office, not Partnerships BC. SU 1431 4.9 1.5 MO 1850 11.2 3.4 Stuart Murray, author of the study and the CCPA’s public • Assessments of P3s, including value for money reports, 2251 10.2 DI 2213 10.5 3.2 LU 3.1 interest researcher, says ‘One rationale after another has been should be made available to the public before projects reach the 0538 5.6 1.7 0221 10.5 3.2 put forward by those who favour P3s, but the only rationale that point of no return. 03 1045 6.9 2.1 11 1041 0.0 0.0 MO 1500 5.9 1.8 TU 1921 11.2 3.4 LU 2230 10.2 3.1 MA 2337 9.8 3.0 0612 4.6 1.4 0319 10.5 3.2 04 1329 7.2 2.2 12 1126 0.0 0.0 UVic engineers help build Electric bicycles on TU 1529 7.2 2.2 WE 1951 11.2 3.4 MA 2248 10.2 3.1 ME ADD ONE HOUR FOR DAYLIGHT SAVING TIME worlds’ largest telescope regional trails UVic is part of an endeavour to build a 30-metre telescope CRD Parks will allow the use of electric bicycles on regional Tides Tables Courtesy of (TMT), the largest ever built. A team of UVic engineers is trails, following the completion of a comprehensive review. Island Marine Construction responsible for designing experimental equipment that will A staff report presented to the CRD Regional Parks Floats • Ramps • Moorings • Pile Driving eventually be used in the new super-scope. Phase One of the Committee on April 19, 2006 recommended allowing electric Ph: 250-537-9710 Email: [email protected] project was completed earlier this year. bicycles that meet the BC Motor Vehicle Act definition of ‘motor- www.islandmarine.ca The gigantic scope—with a light-collecting area nine times assisted cycle’ and display the required sticker. The report the size of the largest existing telescope and 100 times more recommended, however, that the use of these cycles be reviewed powerful than the Hubble telescope—will operate like a giant within the broader context of regional trail management when Advertise Your Event - $26.75 / $32.10 eyeball, allowing astronomers to probe 10 billion light years the Galloping Goose and Lochside regional trail management deep into space. The $750 million project is being undertaken by plans are updated (currently scheduled for 2007). a private-public consortium, including universities in Canada ‘This is a win-win situation for regional trail visitors,’ said and the US, and is expected to be operational in 10 to 15 years. Butler Gravel & Regional Parks Committee chair Chris Causton. Observations from the telescope will help answer questions Concrete…Better ‘Electric bicycles may allow visitors with restricted mobility about how stars, planets and galaxies form, and about dark from the ground up! to get out and experience our fantastic trail system. The CRD is matter and dark energy and the frequency and types of extra- supportive of this and other green technologies.’ Reliable Service, Quality Products solar planets. The review of the issue, which included a public meeting, & Competitive Prices UVic has built a ‘test bench’ of experimental instrumentation needed to develop the telescope parts, such as a tiny ‘adaptive found that strong support exists for permitting electric bicycles Serving All The Gulf Islands optics’ mirror that will compensate for optical aberrations of on the regional trails. CRD Parks is following the lead of other Phone 250-652-4484 incoming light caused by Earth’s atmosphere. The minuscule, jurisdictions, such as the City of Ottawa, which permit the use of Fax 250-652-4486 flexible mirror is not much bigger than an eye pupil and is now electric bicycles on trails where bicycles are allowed. being tested by University of Victoria engineers. Motorized vehicles that do not meet the definition of ‘motor- 6700 Butler Crescent, Saanichton, B.C. In phase two of the project, UVic will be involved in the assisted cycle’ under the Motor Vehicle Act will continue to be development of the cutting-edge, adaptive optics technology prohibited on regional trails. For a detailed description of needed to operate the scope and all of the 738 hexagonal mirror motor-assisted cycles as defined by the Act, visit the ICBC web segments that span its 30-metre bowl. These work together like site at www.icbc.com. For more information about regional pieces of a giant jigsaw puzzle to collect the light beaming to parks and trails visit www.crd.bc.ca. Earth from the far recesses of the universe. UVic is working closely with scientists at the National Research Council’s Herzberg Institute of Astrophysics in SALMON MAPPING from page 1 Victoria. Various sites in the higher elevations of Hawaii, Mexico capacity within Heiltsuk Fisheries and the wider Heiltsuk and Chile are under review as potential locations to build the community.’ giant scope. ‘Personally, I am doing this project because I believe that ‘Since light travels at a finite speed, when we look into distant space we are also looking back in time,’ says Dr. Kim Venn, a Atlantic salmon farms have an impact on our wild salmon UVic astronomer and the Canada Research Chair in stocks. There are also other factors like conventional logging, Observational Astrophysics. ‘The TMT will make it possible to over fishing, and global warming, but I think it has been proven identify and study extremely faint sources in the very distant throughout the coast that where there are fish farms there is a universe, when galaxies began to form. Many of the stars in significant decline in wild salmon stocks,’ said Randy Carpenter galaxies formed shortly after the Big Bang when the universe of Heiltsuk Fisheries. began, and by studying those stars we can treat them like fossils Fieldwork will continue until the end of June, with and probe galaxy evolution from the earliest stages to recent publications ready for 2007. This project is made possible with times with unprecedented accuracy. This will help us to support from the Vancouver Foundation and the Gordon and understand our place in the universe.’ Betty Moore Foundation.

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MLS 213726 $625,000 many conveniences. MLS 214978 $765,000 this property. MLS 206064 $989,000 Top Pemberton Holmes Realtor - 2005 For more information please visit www.ianheath.net 384-8124 ISLAND TIDES, June 29, 2006, Page 3 Saturna Notes ~ John Wiznuk & Priscilla Ewbank riscilla has gone to Washington DC for a the place where they live is as natural and visit. I think George Dubya needs to hear necessary as breathing to this family. Lorraine Enjoy the islands.....visit www.islandtides..com P the view from Saturna. There is a did not make a speech but her thank-you to rumour that he plans to retire here, the climate everyone for everything was eloquence itself. may be better for his health. Be that as it may, I Islands Trust We supply: did not manage to disappear fast enough last The Islands Trust held meetings on Saturna, • week, so I am writing part of this column. that is the whole Islands Trust, all thirteen steel cisterns – Honouring the Campbells Islands plus guests. On June 13 and 14, Saturna polypropylene-lined, Fifty-eight years is a long time in a lifetime. Island was awash with trustees and colourful 5,000 – 30,000 gal. Many people don’t stay in one place for that Islands Trust groupies. • first flush diverters, long. In 1948 Jim and Lorraine Campbell Highlights of the event were: honouring the debris pails, high moved to Saturna to make a home and in the recipients of the Islands Trust community • harvesting systems capacity filters BOB BURGESS process they helped to create a community. stewardship awards, the governance task force • On June 11, a surprise potluck dinner was recommendations (seeking legislative change design tel. 250-246-2155 held in their honour at the Saturna Community to increase the number of trustees from more • installation [email protected] Hall. Organized by Sandi Crowley, Joan Dickey populous Islands), San Juan County/Islands • service Visit our new site: www.rainwaterconnection.com and the Saturna Women’s Service Club this was Trust joint session (hands and heads across the a commemoration of 58 years of volunteer water), the audit report, Island specific budget community service that this couple has given to allocation, tourism forum follow-up, BC Ferries Saturna in particular, and the Islands in (c’mon Minister Falcon, build us a highway or FUEL-EFFICIENT, COST-EFFECTIVE WOOD HEATING general. help out with the fuel surcharge), bylaw The master of ceremonies was Ian enforcement (oh, yes they can), riparian area Middleditch, aka Dr Daylight, and four regulations (it would take too long to explain). generations of Campbell family were present, All this business was done so quietly and along with an overflow crowd of well-wishers efficiently that most of Saturna hardly noticed. from the Island. The food was plentiful and My thanks to Saturna Trustee Brian good, as is case with Island potlucks, and we ate Hollingshead for giving me a synopsis of the before the speeches, which put everyone in a meetings as I had to work those days and could Serving the Gulf Islands & Greater Victoria happy mood. not attend. Speaking of Brian, it was regrettable For over 25 Years As parents of a growing family, the to hear that he has chosen to withdraw from the Campbells became involved with the school Saturna Ferry Committee. He has invested a Sales / Installations board, something that Lorraine kept up for whole lot of volunteer time and energy in many years, as well as the Women’s Service representing Saturna on this very necessary Club. They were there for every July 1st Lamb part of Island life and I thank him and know he Ark Solar Products Ltd. Barbeque, every Fire Department pig will be missed. #6 – 1950 Government Street, Victoria, BC barbeque, and for Community Club meetings -J.W. and events. Jim, and later his daughter The Campbells, Part 2 (over Phone: (250) 386-7643 Jacques, was elected to the CRD Board. Jim to Priscilla) was also a founding member of the Islands When Lorraine Campbell came to Saturna as a Trust. All this and more done while raising a girl with her family she had occasion to be at an family of four and running a profitable farm. event in the community hall. Years later she Also remembered that evening were the remarked that she thought the hall had been multitude of University of British Columbia there forever and she was surprised to learn students that came to Saturna as guests of the Live from India! that it had been built only a year or two before Campbells staying at the former Saturna Beach she came! cabins while studying the natural and human After the second world war, and graduation history of the area. Many Islanders, recent Sitar Masters & Vocalists with degrees in agriculture from UBC, Lorraine arrivals and vintage Saturnaites, spoke with and Jim Campbell came to live on Saturna to From the city of Benares humour and deep feeling about this Island farm and to raise their family. From the ’40s, family who have touched the lives of many. the ’50s, the ’60s, the ’70s, the ’80s, and the Jim Campbell, almost never at a loss for ’90s and continuing through to today, Jim and words at a gathering, though suffering with a ‘Pandit’ Shivnath Lorraine have been a vibrant part of Saturna cold, made a reply saying that he figured he got Community. Lorraine and Jim have been off easy as he expected to be roasted as well as members of the Community Club for 60 years praised. He also said that he did all these things Mishra and Lorraine has been a member of the because they were fun or because they interested him. I think that being involved in SATURNA, please turn to page 7 and son Deobrat FERRY FARES from page 1 Mishra The Next Service Period Discussions have now started on the contract between the government and BC Ferry Services Inc. over the government’s contribution to smaller route operating costs for the next ‘performance term.’ Gulf Islanders are understandably apprehensive that the government will try to reduce its Experience a beautiful musical evening of Raga contribution further, and that ferry service for Island residents will become even more expensive. The Commissioner has endorsed recommendations by Island Ferry Advisory Committees that they be involved in these discussions. However, the elaborate structure that has been set up Thurs, July 6 Galiano - South Community Hall\ provides no room for Islanders to negotiate with either the government or BC Ferries on this point. Friday, July 7 Pender Community Hall

Ferry fare increases March 2003 - March Saturday, July 8 Salt Spring - BeaverPoint Hall 2008 Date Increase Main route Small route Main route Small route Source Multiplier Multiplier Cumulative Cumulative Sunday, July 9 Gabriola - Net Loft (10th - Kirtan) Mar-03 Base 100.0 100.0 Nov-03 Regular 1.028 1.044 102.8 104.4 th Nov-04 Regular 1.028 1.044 105.7 109.0 ) Jul-05 Fuel Surcharge 1.04 1.06 109.9 115.5 Wednesday, July 12 Powell River - Patricia Theatre (13 Kirtan Nov-05 Regular 1.028 1.044 113.0 120.6 Jan-06 Fuel Surcharge 1.015 1.03 114.7 124.2 Jun-06 Fuel Surcharge 1.032 1.096 118.3 136.2 Friday, July 14 Cumberland - The Abbey Nov-06 Regular 1.028 1.044 121.7 142.2 Nov-07 Regular 1.028 1.044 125.1 148.4 Saturday, July 15 Quadra Community Centre Without Fuel Surcharges: th Mar-03 Base 100.0 100.0 Sunday, July 16 Cortez Community Centre (17 -Kirtan) Nov-03 Regular 1.028 1.044 102.8 104.4 Nov-04 Regular 1.028 1.044 105.7 109.0 Nov-05 Regular 1.028 1.044 108.6 113.8 Nov-06 Regular 1.028 1.044 111.7 118.8 Tuesday, July 18 Denman Backhall Coffeehouse Nov-07 Regular 1.028 1.044 114.8 124.0 Wednesday, July 19 Hornby - Joe King Clubhouse Fares Go Up - Does this Affect Ridership? The Commission has not compensated in its calculations for any possible reduction in ridership Friday, July 21 Nanaimo Art Gallery Downtown resulting from these significant increases in fares. The possibility is explored, however. Using Saturday, July 22 Vancouver - Asian Arts Theatre – UBC figures from a 1997 price elasticity study, the Commission has speculated on the possible financial loss to BC Ferries due to implementation of the fuel surcharges. Assuming that a 10% increase in Concerts at 8:00 pm fares leads to a 5% decrease in ridership on the main routes, and a 3% decrease on the smaller www.music-of-benares.com routes (where ferry riders have less choice), BC Ferries could suffer a $25 to $35 million reduction For full schedule information in revenues over the period from July 2005 to March 2008 when the surcharges were in effect. Email: [email protected] ph: 360-301-3833 This could come close to a year’s profit.

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What makes the Old School not a worthy building to support; Calling A Spade, A Spade especially if it is the one that you have had the use of for 20 years? What could it possibly mean to tell the community that As everyone knows, but few will admit in public, there is a dark you have granted back to the community $900,000 in the last 19,000 copies this issue underbelly to Islands’ life. All is not as chummy as it seems, in 20 years but to refuse to pay cost-recovery rent on the building Every Second Thursday fact, life on the Islands can get socially nastier than in the city. you occupy? Being at a remove from the mainstream can have its burdens as The total cost to run the Old School building sustainably, well as its blessings. Islanders can forget what is customary in including utilities, is $600-700 per month. PICSS says it raises SALISH SEA’S ONLY FREE & the greater civilized world. $60,000 a year from selling the secondhand goods donated by A case in point is a strange situation on Pender. One MAIL DELIVERY NEWSPAPER the community. This makes operating the building about 10% of registered BC society is mounting an attack on another. The one the gross—a bargain in anybody’s terms. And it’s all going back, being attacked is the landlord; the one attacking is the tenant. except for utilities and insurance, into a community recreation 8,500 copies delivered to Pender Island Recreation & Agricultural Hall Association facility. (PIRAHA) has been managing buildings for public recreational Southern Islands’ households After initially agreeing to a cost recovery program, PICSS’s use for 25 years. Recently PIRAHA has been taking a long, hard response now is that there are only two things that it will look at the four recreational buildings it owns. To keep these consider. The first is buying the $719,000 property for $1. (Does buildings in good shape into the future, rents need to go up. To PICSS envision owning the library and the Portable too? Or does date, one new cost recovery lease has been signed. PICSS plan to strata-title the property through the Islands However another tenant, Pender Island Community Services Trust?) Society (PICSS) is kicking up a huge fuss at being asked to pay its You’ve got to be kidding! How does PICSS imagine it will way. PICSS’s volunteers run a highly successful thrift store force a BC and federally registered Society to hand over its operation, the Nu-To-Yu, raising approximately $60,000 per property? In the larger world this would be called expropriation. 10,500 copies on the Ferry Routes, year, granting back funds to the community for capital projects. PICSS’s other counter-demand is having a 10-year lease on PICSS might just say ‘thank you’ to PIRAHA for the nominal in Sidney,Victoria & north of the the Old School for $1 per year. PICSS is saying it will not rent it has been paying for the past 20 years, freeing more money contribute to the upkeep of the building unless it has sole control Malahat to Nanaimo to go to PICSS community grants. The time has come when www.islandtides.com PIRAHA can no longer afford to subsidize PICSS in this way and over it. However this leaves PIRAHA and its directors with the (modest) building costs must be paid by tenants. legal and moral responsibility for a building over which it would ISLAND TIDES PUBLISHING Ltd Now PICSS is crying poor. If PICSS is in financial difficulty it have no control—one which currently has serious public safety Box 55, Pender Island, BC, V0N 2M0 could raise the price of Nu-To-Yu goods by 25¢; or rent less issues to be attended to. space in the Old School building which it occupies. Suggestions are arising from some community members that Owner, Publisher & Editor: Christa Grace-Warrick The numbers just don’t make sense. The society just gave the public-use building ought to be closed until the recently Contributors: Patrick Brown, Trysh Ashby-Rolls $15,000 to the current health centre fundraiser. The request to discovered problem of potential asbestos-containing insulation is dealt with. John Wisnuk, Priscilla Ewbank, CCPA contribute $7,500 to repairs on the venerable Old School has met a bald refusal. A SPADE, please turn to next page Tel: 250-629-3660 • Fax: 629-3838 Readers’ Letters Email:[email protected] & [email protected] Deadline: Wednesday between Publications Healthy Kudos are International Life Members, Lions highest award. They are both long time and faithful workers. Off-Island Canadian Subscriptions $42.80 Dear Editor: Without the dedication of Lions such as these, the club could Voluntary Mail & Box Pick-up Subscriptions $21.40 I have just read an article in our marvellous Islands’ newspaper, the Island Tides, that gives details of a survey of a number of not function productively, said Tetreau. The Lions are seeking families in Canada. Their bodies were found contaminated with new members, she added. ‘Membership in this club is ideal for many pollutants, as many as 30 each! both men and women. The work is volunteer only, it’s not too The website (www.toxicnation.ca), with petition etc, is very demanding of your time and the satisfactions of Katherine Barber good too. I’m sending it to my MP—please do the same. accomplishment for your community are great. Besides we get to Joan Barfoot know each other and develop new friendships.’ Barlow In the same paper is a review of a book written by Silken th Maude In taking office as the new president of Lions, Doug Patterson Kim Bolan Laumann titled Child's Play—it reads very well. And it’s not just thanked Lillian Tetreau for her competence and leadership in 24 Annual Joseph Boyden about children playing more—it’s for us too! I’m in favour… Brian Brett Hope you are all as healthy as can be! that office. Charlie Whipp, Pender Island August Ivan E. Coyote Patricia Joyce, Galiano Island rd th George Fetherling Green Bloom OK 3 -6 Joy Fielding Pender Lions AGM 2006 Dear Editor: Sheree Fitch Dear Editor: Regarding the article ‘Public education essential for marine Rockwood Centre James Keelaghan The Pender Island Lions Club has raised and given away conservation areas’ (Island Tides, June 15, 2006), in which MacKinnon Sechelt J.B. approximately $20,000 in the last year, the club treasurer Mark people thought that a green bloom in the ocean looks like ‘sewer Donna Morrissey Slater told an audience of 25 at the club’s annual Charter Night, Alayna Munce sludge,’ I spoke to the fisherman who fishes for the aquarium’s in the Anglican Church hall on June 20. food and he says that it is natural—just as red tide algae is www.writersfestival.ca Nelofer Pazira The money went to a variety of causes, most of them on Robinson natural. Eden Pender Island, ranging from the medical centre building fund to 604-885-9631 Jim Taylor Browning Harbour is full of baby crab floating on top of the tel: equipment for a man seeking out the tallest trees on Pender for Miriam Toews water. They feed on this bloom till they are heavy enough to sink toll free: 1-800-565-9631 nesting eagles. or visit the Festival Box Office Jane Urquhart to the bottom. The baby fish also feed on these crabs. The bay is There was $2,500 for the child or youth programs, including at 5511 Shorncliffe Avenue, Sechelt John Vaillant full of seals feeding on all these. It’s like the circle of life in the Jack Whyte junior golf and basketball, the RCMP bike rodeo, an Artists in ocean—all natural. School program; $2,000 in bursaries and $2,000 for the Pender Lou Henshaw, Pender Island Museum Society. Island Kindness In thanking the club for its annual support to the pipe band, Dear Editor: Pipe Major Jim Dunlop noted the Lions are the largest single On Monday, June 19, my husband and I left Vancouver for a WATERFRONT PROPERTY contributor to their band. The pipers joined the Lions for a two-day getaway at Poet’s Cove on Pender Island. dinner of barbequed chicken and steak and played appropriate FOR SALE ON VALDES ISLAND After the ferry and on the way, we stopped at the Driftwood pieces during the evening’s events. Village to get some supplies; at the market, the liquor store and Retiring Lions president Lillian Tetreau made special awards lunch at the Pender Island Bakery. The people were very friendly to Doug Patterson, notably for his work with the bursaries and we noticed the young moms and tots as well as people program and operation of the hotdog cart, an important club simply enjoying the scenery, their dogs and each other. money raiser; to Shirley Lepers, club co-secretary and telephone Disaster struck as I was about to enjoy a spa treatment at book coordinator; Guy LaBine, for care and operation of the Poet’s Cove and realized I did not have my wallet! I had to make club’s van for the confined and elderly; and Mark Slater, who has the appointment, so my husband drove back to the Village to been treasurer since 2001. Certificates of Appreciation went to enquire at the stores, but to no avail. It may have been too early $169,900 Bill Morris, Dianne McAuley and John Coulson. or I very well could have lost it somehow on the ferry. 4.95 TO 7 ACRE LOTS Also in attendance were Rita Albert and Jack Macaulay who Needless to say, my sleep was a bit interrupted, however we still had a great time enjoying the Island. RICHARDICHARD HILLILL SHORELINE DESIGN On the way home Wednesday, we thought we would again AMEX BROADWAY WEST REALTY A B W R www.shorelinedesign.ca Wood-Fired re-trace our steps, this after my husband saying ‘don’t worry, I 604-948-0434 Hot Tubs have a feeling this will work out.’ We stopped at the market and WWW.WESTCOASTLAND.NET a young man named ‘Mike’ checked for us, but to no avail. We • fully insured LETTERS, please turn to next page • excellent IS YOUR references WELL WATER SAFE TO DRINK? Call Us Toll Free for Quotes on: Contamination can occur • Homeowners • Farm without changes in colour or • Commercial • Bed & Breakfasts taste. Be safe, test annually. 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BC Ferries says that the growth in population, there is no way that this building should return to a 40 minute cut-off time at Tsawwassen terminal is “EXPECT A ROARING SUCCESS!” be removed from the recreational facilities pool for anther ten necessary to process all stand-by passengers and to prepare to years. load Southern Gulf Island vessel(s) for multiple ports. PICSS has indicated that it wants to remain in the building Travel from Tsawwassen (Vancouver) to Southern Gulf (though sometimes it threatens to move out). A short-term cost Islands includes service to Galiano Island (Sturdies Bay), Mayne LANCE VAESEN ROOFING recovery lease would be a solution. It’s pretty silly to issue Island (Village Bay), Pender Island (Otter Bay) and Salt Spring 1184 SUMMIT AVE, VICTORIA ultimatums when what you need is security. 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LETTERS from previous page The fact is that all PIRAHA’s decisions and initiatives are then split up, with my husband going to the liquor store, while I indications of responsible building management. It’s time for went to the bakery. I found the pretty reddish-brunette who had Custom designs for Homes, PICSS to get on with signing a cost recovery lease, set about helped us on the Monday and told her my story. She said ‘your Renovations, Interiors, mending some fences and leave PIRAHA in peace to get on with wallet is at the liquor store!’ and Vacation Homes its duties. I thanked her so much and crossed back to see my husband Versions of this tale will resonate with Islanders everywhere. who was waiting in line, but as I walked in I blurted out my This is not the first time or place that this kind of situation has Keith Jakobsen www.jakobsenassociates.com name and before I could say more, Shannon said ‘yes, we have 604.261.5619 [email protected] developed, but we could hope it is the last. This particular case is your wallet and have also called the RCMP’. I thanked her and getting the light of day shone on it. Usually people do not speak then went back to the bakery feeling quite overwhelmed that out for fear of an unpleasant social life. somehow it had been turned in, all intact. I thanked our friend However, disrespectful behaviour needs to be named or it WOMEN’S OUTREACH at the Bakery and she gave me a big hug, probably because I had SERVICES can spread poison in the community. What’s the answer? For my wallet in my hand, tears, and the most precious of all being people not to take things at face value; to know facts before the picture of my granddaughter. On the way to the ferry we 1-888-537-0717 taking positions; to decline to spread rumour and gossip, stopped at the RCMP office and advised them what had Do you need information and support? however juicy; to refrain from unfounded allegations; and to happened. We can assist with: counselling, parenting skills, educational question these behaviours when they are encountered. It is only Upon arriving home Wednesday night, we found we had a upgrading, job training, income assistance, housing, legal through having the courage to do this that we will build Island message from ‘Josie’ of the RCMP advising us of the find. aid, court support, advocacy, health & wellness services communities we can be proud to live in. For all of the above, I would like to thank those involved who FREE Workshops may be offered in the fall In keeping quiet and creating the myth of an idealized kept my wallet (and picture) safe and who were so kind to us. community, we only cultivate disillusionment and regarding such issues as: Most of all, thank you to the good citizen who protected my Older Women Abuse and Honouring Women’s History unwillingness to participate in community life. Something we wallet, saved me a lot of grief and showed us all how to live our increasingly see in our communities. Real communities take SAFE • FREE • CONFIDENTIAL lives Patricia Koel, Vancouver work, restraint and respect.

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(Those chicks have pretty well flown the coop now: Sophia has set her sights on becoming a doctor (Oolichan Books, Or selling your Calgary home to move to the Gulf Islands? and presently works as a paramedic in Duncan; Paris, who 1998), 4722 Rue THE I was raised on Galiano Island earlier this year did the fire-cadet training on Pender, plans a Berri (Caitlin Press, and now work and live in Calgary. PRESS career as a carpenter.) 1986), Releasing I am ready to work with you! On Salt Spring in 1990, untouched by the snarl of traffic, the the Spirit (Colophon Books limited edition, 1982) and edited Give me a call! (403)-999-9930 buzz of chainsaws or logging trucks, piled high with old growth, Labour of Love: An Anthology of Poetry on Pregnancy and lumbering down forest tracks, Mona and Peter thought Childbirth (Polestar, 1996). themselves in heaven. Like England before the Industrial Since 1990, together with Peter, Mona has designed, owned, Revolution, it was another era. and operated (m)Öthêr Tøñgué Press, a literary press that takes Sheep still need shearing? Fertig’s career in Canadian literature spans almost 30 years. up an entire floor of their century-old home set within an acre of Aged 23, she opened The Literary Storefront—Canada’s first property near Ganges. literary centre. In those days, Vancouver still had its laid-back Letterpress began in Europe in the 14th century as an hippie atmosphere. Her storefront housed the first BC office of alternative to laborious calligraphy. Type was hand cast and The Writers’ Union of Canada, which although situated individual characters were hand set into lines until machine set elsewhere today, still remains the only office outside Toronto composition made the process easier. Today, many designers headquarters. Since those days, she has been a bookseller, and are returning to the craft of letterpress—printing from metal founding member of the BC Federation of Writers, the Feminist type and custom engraved plates—as a unique option to offset Pieter De Mooy Caucus in the League of Canadian Poets, and the BC Book Prize printing. Letterpress offers a tactile quality and nostalgic feel Committee. She has been the BC representative for PEN that can’t be achieved with any other technique. 250-744-0727 Canada, and The Writers’ Union of Canada’s BC/Yukon regional Together Fertig and Haase have published many prize- representative, as well as sitting on many literary juries. winning poets and authors, including P K Page, Peter Such, As if that isn’t a lifetime achievement in the arts in Canada, Lorna Crozier, Robert Kroetsch, Kate Braid, Daphne Marlatt, HOPE BAY HAS LEASE SPACE! Phyllis Webb, Marilyn Bowering and Sylvia Legris, the 2006 Canadian recipient of the Griffin Poetry Prize. 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o, not another review of Emily Carr’s Book of ‘It is about nine inches tall, cobalt, made of blown glass, Small. In fact one of these four chapbooks would be and sits in the center of a polished wood table. The vase N better described as a ‘Book of Tiny.’ would look exquisite with flowers in it, say, lavender In case you’re wondering what a chapbook is, let me assure heather or white orchids, but this never happens. From you it has nothing to do with cracked lips, but everything to do three to five p.m. in spring and fall on sunny days a ray of with size. Yes, they’re small, usually less than 50 pages, and light shines through the glass, casting a blue shadow on the contain a popular tale, ballad or series of poems. wood. If you enter the room when light is shining on the Hot off Salt Spring’s (m)Öthêr Tøñgué Press comes Blue vase, you’ll catch your breath, not because of the beauty of Notes by Shirley Graham, Nadine Shelly’s dakini dreams, and the sight, though it is beautiful, but because of the justified Murray Reiss’ Distance from the Locus. It goes without saying, fear that either your breath or the force of the light will be of course, that these books are superbly produced (see related enough to shatter the glass—which is, after all, the article page 6). They are lovingly put together with the colour, inevitable end for the blue vase. Sooner or later, it will )LQGWKH design, and artistry expected from Mona Fertig and Peter Haase break.’ and their antique letterpress. Distance From The Locus PLVHU\LQ Blue Notes In Distance from the Locus, Murray Reiss paints images as Blue Notes, unsurprisingly, is laid out in blue shades. Havilland powerful as the hand-mixed reddy-brown inks used on the cover LVODQGOLYLQJ to highlight Peter Haase’s linocut of a store dummy through a blue and two shades of hand-mixed blue ink, with handmade *HWDKLODULRXVDQG end papers deckled with dried arbutus and other natural window. No accident, I think. Reiss grew up in Sarnia, Ontario summer substances gathered on Salt Spring Island. Blue where his parents owned a store. There he fell in love with the ZLOGO\WZLVWHG Parisian thread embroiders this lovely book together. mannequins ‘in the basement/ of the store—that pile of tangled SHUVSHFWLYHRQWKH Open the pages, and the reader is not disappointed by Shirley wigs, chipped/ smiles and broken limbs.’ A set up, perhaps, not *XOI,VODQGV Graham, although I have to say that, while many of the poems so much for the horrors of his parents’ experiences in war ravaged Poland where, ‘They’d drowned in a boiling blue blob' :LWKTXHVWLRQDEOH are entitled ‘Blue….’ It jars slightly when they are not. (Also, I WUDYHODGYLFHDQGD longed for one to be called Le Blue Note, named for a den of and ‘burned in a big red fire / my mother called Europe’ as, iniquity I frequented in Paris, circa 1962.) ‘Bhopal in slow motion, a Love Canal on the shores of Lake St. IUHHZLOGOLIHJXLGH Graham’s poems are all accessible yet ephemeral. Her images Clair, the worst outbreak of industrial disease in recent Canadian history, lung cancers, breast cancers, brain cancers…rare are at once vivid: ‘similar to a wildflower growing through a ,QDOOILQHERRNVKRSV cancers like mesothelioma…except in Sarnia mesothelioma isn’t crack in a mossy stone wall,’ smoky (read hazy): ‘You’ll have an rare, it’s common.’ impression of things floating past you, out of reach,’ and as evocative as any jazz riff: CHAPBOOKS, please turn to page 11

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In its four-and-a-half months of No wonder each book bears the seal ‘beautiful books make the data portal to the seafloor through its information operation, VENUS has already archived more than 35 million the heart sing.’ ‘Just after we bought the letterpress, I received a management and archive system. measurements and dozens of gigabytes of acoustic and visual book from Leonard Cohen with the seal, ‘order of the unified The portal, hosted on the new VENUS website at data. That information—and new real time data—is now heart’,’ she explains. ‘I was inspired to make my own.’ www.venus.uvic.ca, gives scientists and the general public access available to the world. Not for this poet anything ugly, exploitive or cruel. Although Fertig longs for the juggernaut plundering her to a constantly expanding ‘warehouse’ of images, sounds and live The data management system is constantly evolving. In the data from the ocean floor. island to cease and desist, her trump card is optimism. ‘Beauty near future, ‘software agents’ will work on behalf of VENUS The $10.3-million VENUS facility offers the world’s first walks the beach barefoot with herons, cradles Hope,’ she writes scientists, monitoring incoming data and alerting them by e- interactive, real-time portal to the ocean. Its underwater in This is Paradise. mail or cell phone if an unusual event or trend occurs that network of fibre optic cables and instruments, which is She jolts the uninitiated wide-awake remembering the Souls warrants immediate attention. connected to the Internet, lets us all ‘enter’ the ocean whenever of the Dead, the old hippies whose ‘children have left for the we wish, and allows scientists to operate their instruments and Over its 20-year lifespan, VENUS will support studies on Mainland to seek their fortune. / Taken the ferry & cellphone.’ download data online, day or night, in real time. topics such as: long-term ocean change; tides, currents and Fertig eschews suffering. Yes, ‘the Optimists [may be] tired,’ Ganges Harbour may be ‘landfilled for real estate Gold’ but the The 3-km network of fibre optic cables and instruments that mixing; fish and marine mammal movements; seafloor good news is ‘Camas and butter clams re-open.’ makes up the first leg of VENUS was installed in Saanich Inlet in community ecology; underwater noise pollution; sediment and Life goes on as life does. The ‘Pea soup simmers, organic, no February. Information has been streaming in since then. A slope dynamics; and plankton behaviour. harm. Love is safe’ and even if ‘arthritis is mean’ and Americans second, 40-km leg will be installed in the Strait of Georgia near VENUS is funded by the Canada Foundation for Innovation, are buying up the waterfront to ‘flee The Beast’ it’s okay. Vancouver later this year. the British Columbia Knowledge Development Fund, and other ‘Nothing stops growth’—unless it’s the invasive species: Scotch contributions from federal agencies, industry and sponsors. At the heart of VENUS is a centralized data management and Broom, Purple Strife and so on, which ‘Islanders in gumboots’ are quick to axe. Satsang on the dock, aka the University of Salt Spring, is not only free, it’s where the temporal and the mystical 2006 Community Stewardship awards announced hold hands, more likely to bring a degree of Enlightenment than any formal diploma. The Islands Trust Council selected the recipients of the fifth Island Conservancy, Mount Erskine Campaign to create Mount However with the wisdom of their hearts clearly intact, annual Community Stewardship Awards during its quarterly Erskine Provincial Park. ‘fearing not the transformations they must face’ (apologies to meeting on Saturna Island, June 15, 2006. The awards for individual stewards go to: Thetis’ Bob Gary Geddes), Mona Fertig and Peter Haase will take apart their These awards acknowledge the contributions of groups and Burgess, Gulf Islands Rainwater Connection Ltd for his work on beloved letterpress and, in individuals towards improving the community, culture or rainwater harvesting, and Ann Johnston of Mayne Island for her time for the poet to gather ‘the Live Your Dream economic sustainability of an Island. work on recycling on Mayne Island. darling buds of May’ in 2007, Council gave the group awards to: Michelle Marsden and the The Community Stewardship Awards will be presented at start over in a more remote BC Coastal Clean Up Campaign on the Pender Islands for the local trust committee meetings later this year on the individual island in the Salish Sea. removal of marine wrecks and beach cleanup, and Salt Spring Islands where the recipients live.

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CYCLING AT A GUEST RANCH PHOTO: Tourism BC BC’s Cariboo Chilcotin Coast is Tailor-Made for Adventure he great outdoor plaudits of the Cariboo Chilcotin Coast are impressive. It’s home to Mount Waddington, the T highest peak entirely within BC; Quesnel Lake, one of the world's deepest glacially formed lakes; and Tweedsmuir Provincial Park which boasts 981,000 hectares (2.4 million acres) of wilderness. It is a region of few people, but vast swatches of wilderness and open space. All this beckons adventurers to a honey pot of outdoor challenges. Only experienced mountaineers take on the 4,016-metre- high (13,176 foot) steeple of Mount Waddington that has been Your Province. compared to Mont Blanc in the Alps. However, avid climbers can also head to Marble Canyon Provincial Park or the pitted limestone climbs near Williams Lake. Experienced backpackers can retrace the steps of the famed explorer on the 350-kilometre Alexander Mackenzie/Nuxalk- There’s no better place for a summer vacation than right here. British Columbia offers almost endless Carrier Grease Trail. Sections of the trail can be hiked on day combinations of natural beauty, people and cultures. In summer, our cities sizzle with a dizzying array of trips in the Bella Coola Valley. In this same area, one can reach Hunlen Falls, which plunges 253 metres (830 feet) into the art galleries, museums, 5-star restaurants, one-of-a-kind shops, festivals and entertainment of every kind. Atnarko River. There are endless trekking possibilities including some along the Cariboo Waggon Road - a route once travelled This summer, there really is no better place to explore than your home–British Columbia. by gold-seekers. One of Canada's landmark canoe routes is the 116-kilometre (72-mile) circuit in Bowron Lake Provincial Park. For many, this For more information on special travel opportunities within B.C. and to order six to 10-day wilderness paddle - it can also be kayaked - is the outdoor trip of a lifetime. ® your free BC Escapes Guides, call 1-800 HELLO BC or visit HelloBC.com This region has something for every cyclist when it comes to mountain biking trails. There are more than 160 kilometres (99 miles) in the 108 Mile area and white-knuckle rides abound in Williams Lake with everything from steep drops and log rides to teeter-totters. Wildlife sightings are part of everyday life here. Adventurers can seek out the rare Kermode, or Spirit, Bear on Princess Royal Island, see grizzly and black bear on roadsides, and, with experienced guides, access far-flung backcountry like Junction Sheep Range Provincial Park to gape at bighorn sheep and much more. 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Big powerful memories goose step in jackboots through are said to speak a secret language called ‘twilight language’ and the handmade pages, make me weep and bang my fists on the have the ability to conceal and reveal teachings in natural forms, desk; make me want to hold this poet in my arms for his passion such as rocks, trees, and water. about all things unjust and squalid. ‘Will you take care of me?’ a Spell For An Island ‘ragged disheveled woman’ in an East End London bakery ‘asked It seems fitting to complete this review of small books with a more like a business proposition.’ tiny, self-published chapbook called Spell for an Island by I won’t spoil the ending to his final poem. Read it for yourself. Katherine Dunster, another Islander (Bowen). I have seen tinier It’s a reminder of the importance of gratitude for what we’ve got, publications—in my own modest library is a collection of books no matter how small. dakini dreams no larger than 3” x 4” (the largest) and 3” x 2 ” (the smallest). Dunster’s book is really an evocation, ‘Stuff to think about, dakini dreams are green. An arbutus linocut against the sky meditate upon, celebrate, dance on the tongue, sing out as you sweeps across the bottom of the cover beckoning the reader walk.’ (R)evolutionary Chant #8, is a spell, or more simply put, inside. Author Nadine Shelly does not disappoint. a way to change consciousness. She suggests, ‘the nice thing ‘she hides herself in the shadows of leaves about spells is that when you read them aloud magical things can each green vein revealing happen. Give it a try. While it’s going to take more than magic to a secret pulse, a sacred syllable.’ save the Islands in the Salish Sea, I figure a few readings of this Every poem is a sensual delight. Yet Shelly writes of ordinary spell can only help nudge things along in the right direction: Going Somewhere? human matters—travel, the natural world, life, death, love, the ‘May island life all be well.’’ whole damn thing. Except all is imaged through the lens of that Go on, give it a try—it can’t hurt! whittome’s travel curious twilight place of the Dakini, who was known long before 60 Station Street, Duncan modern psychology attempted to label those glorious moments Blue Notes, Shirley Graham, $20; Distance From The Locus, as we move toward and come out of sleep: Psychogogic or Murray Reiss, $20; dakini dreams, Nadine Shelly, $20; 2005, psychopompic hallucinations. 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Especially, say, since I left in Ithe other side of the Strait of Georgia, or 1995. The some of those less accessible Gulf Islands, like population, for Cortes. example, has Too adventurous, you say. Too difficult. Not jumped from for me, you argue. There are so many places 6,000 to around here I’d love to see, but I use a couple of 26,500. canes now. I always went on holiday with my Sometimes sister, but now she’s in a wheelchair …. called a ribbon Have I got news for you. Sticks and Wheels: community, A Guide to Accessible Travel on the Lower there is only one long main road, Highway 101, Sunshine Coast is written by a woman who is —or as a late friend called it, ‘The High Street’— herself in a wheelchair, Ellen Frank. Whether also known as the Sunshine Coast Highway. At you use the assistance of crutches, a cane, a the north end of it is Lund, near Powell River, scooter, a walker or a wheelchair, whether if and the southern end—wait for it! —is in Chile. you have arthritic knees or tender feet, push a ‘Let’s stay on this stretch,’ she writes. It feels baby stroller or just happen to be a slow like she speaks directly to me, and I hear her walker—this book is for you. laughing. Frank is a retired travel agent with an From the Langdale Ferry terminal (catch obsession for picking up brochures and giving the ferry at Horseshoe Bay) it’s 86 km (54 people advice on where to stay. Her guide, miles) to Egmont. To continue further up you handy enough to slip in a large pocket, details have to take another ferry from Earl’s Cove to every restaurant, theatre, pub, store, coffee Saltery Bay and that, writes Frank, is a treat. joint, B&B, beach trail, fitness club and toilet on Agreed. the Lower Sunshine Coast. She has personally After providing information on the nitty Photo: Patrick Brown visited each site and left out the places that gritty of How? and Where? and Who? to Youngsters enjoy smoothies at Pender’s Farmers Market. aren’t accessible. contact, each subsequent page on the journey ‘Life is just too boring when you’re stuck at up the ‘high street’ is graded for accessibility: home,’ she writes in her introduction. And she slow walker or cane user with pretty good knows ‘beyond a doubt that it is harder to get balance; user of two canes, crutches, Peace hero honoured at World Peace Forum around with limited mobility.’ Hence the guide. compromised balance; part-time use of a ‘Nations honour their military heroes. The Regehr’s contributions to peace and conflict The Sunshine Coast, she says, is a magical wheelchair, walker or scooter, and full-time Canada World Peace Award celebrates those resolution are many. Among other activities: place with an abundance of protected coastline, wheelchair user. courageous individuals who make outstanding • He has served as an NGO representative secluded coves and bays, and the land supports Time to test a couple of places/pages. contributions to world peace and justice,’ says and expert advisor on numerous Government a variety of flora and fauna. There is a vibrant Dan Bosch Regional Park has beach access Warren Allmand, president of the World of Canada delegations to multilateral First Nations heritage—the shíshálh (Sechelt) and a scuba diving area. One porta-potty is Federalist Movement–Canada (WFMC). disarmament forums, including review people—and a large population of artisans and graded with 2 LLs. In other words, user of two Founded in 1951, the World Federalist conferences of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation crafts folk. canes, crutches and with compromised Movement–Canada is a branch of the Treaty and the United Nations Conferences on Her style is easy to read and often amusing. balance. international World Federalist Movement, Small Arms and Light Weapons. As Canada’s She describes the Sechelt Peninsular as it’s Next, let’s try Klein Lake. Area has a new which advocates more effective and representative on the United Nations Group of properly known, as being part of BC’s mainland site—a designated accessible campsite with democratically accountable global governance Governmental Experts on Arms Transfer but, because it’s cut off by a substantial adjacent accessible porta-potty washroom. The institutions to promote the rule of law in world Transparency, Regehr was instrumental in the mountain range, you can only get in and out by terrain is gravel. Frank gives it a 4-wheelchair affairs. creation in 1992 of the UN Conventional Arms boat or plane. ‘Hiking in,’ she says, ‘would take grade, which means it’s useable by anyone from Since 1972, WFMC’s annual award has paid Register, described by Foreign Affairs Canada a very long time and you’d have to be in very one cane to full-time wheelchair user. tribute to such champions of world peace as as ‘the only global co-operative security good shape.’ This is a most useful guide, I highly Lester Pearson, Stephen Lewis, Louise Arbour, instrument with a mandate to deal with the I have never heard of anyone attempting it— recommend it. I’m glad to report that Ellen Lloyd Axworthy and Roméo Dallaire. This year, challenges related to the proliferation of and I lived up there for 8 years. Much has Frank is planning more guides in the future. the honour will go to Ernie Regehr, cofounder conventional arms.’ Regehr is a past member of of Project Ploughshares, the influential global the Advisory Board to the Minister of Foreign peace advocacy agency of the Canadian Council Affairs of Canada. Accommodation & Attractions of Churches. The award ceremony took place • Regehr is a prolific author and editor of during the World Peace Forum in Vancouver books, monographs, academic and policy Vancouver Island & Around the Georgia Strait on Saturday, June 24. papers, parliamentary briefs, popular articles ‘For decades, Ernie has been a significant and opinion pieces on peace and security issues. 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